I agree . That was very interesting data. Especially how there was a big wave of boats that were bought a few years ago, 5 years or even 10 years ago.It just looks like a huge wave of new boat purchases are coming up.

Very cool info @horton. I would have thought more folks on here lived on the lake than do. Also of interest is that there is a contingent of folks skiing that are younger than 35. While not a high percentage of ballers it does perhaps indicate a trend of more skiers?! Certainly those 18 and younger are more at the mercy of the activities of their parents. Of the 1000 surveyed, ~37% make 500k or more. Good job. Keep it up to keep everyone else employed! (ie: through spending or employing others). Thanks for putting this together John.

@Horton meant to mention this on the other survey thread, but i think it would have been useful and interesting to ask " How did you find out about / join BOS.com? " ( or some version of that).

I personally found this site by randomly googling forums for waterskiers...some word of mouth..maybe tourneys for other..would be interesting is all im saying. Maybe good for you as well to know where your ballers are finding you.

The biggest opportunity to grow the sport is in the 50% of the population that is not represented here. I'm not a statistician, but there seems to be a correlation with the low number of kids and low number of females, at least in the survey population.

In my experience, when women get a taste of the buoys, they get hooked. And start spending money. And get their kids to ski. Since being on the water is very much a family oriented sport, it seems we need to provide avenues for moms (and women in general) to discover skiing. That is, if we really want to grow the sport.

Probably the most telling to me are the age and income. Almost 70% of us make over 100k while only about 20% of US households make that much. That, and we’re going the way of Oldsmobile, Waterski keeps marketing to the same age demographic, and it dies with its demographic. I hope to see marketing directly focused on the college crowd. An intense focus on college team support, I think, is where we need to go. But, it’s not my industry, nor my job. It’s just my opinion, and we know about those things.

So I am very average other then being old. Not that surprised at the boat buying. I would say our tugs took a big jump late 90's. So if every last buoy is not the upmost goal our older tugs are still good.